A BAT IN STORYBROOKE:
Chapter 25
Fidget hit the brakes of his car once he had Rosetta tied up on the passenger seat (he had her handcuffed) and instantly drove from where he parked the car on the Toll Bridge. He drove the vehicle as fast as he could but made sure he followed the speed limit while he drove through town.
"Wh-what are you going to do to me?" Rosetta stammered, looking tearfully at the Batrishan, who was focusing on the road.
"I'm taking you to the town line," Fidget said. "Plan C for my scheme is to threaten to throw you across it unless the codfish is killed." He snickered at his idea while it terrified Rosetta.
"Please! Not the town line!" Rosetta screamed, struggling to get out of her handcuffs. "I don't know what's going to happen if I cross it! The last times it was crossed, it erased people's memories, prevented anyone to step in, and turned a dwarf into a tree! What if I turn into dust?"
"Oh, spare me with the crying!" Fidget grumbled as he turned on Main Street. "I had no problem crossing the town line in and out to make sure that Storybrooke existed! And I made it without a scratch!"
This didn't help Rosetta. She kept crying. "Please! Just let me go back to my parents! I swear on the River Styx that I won't try to prevent any of your future schemes!"
"Tempting," Fidget said. "But no."
"I thought that you fought with love and honor!"
Fidget hit the brake in shock, nearly causing two other cars to crash into one another. Flashbacks of his childhood came into his mind, most particularly the one of a woman in her deathbed giving him his birth medallion back, along with a bat pendant with the words 'Always fight with love and honor' carved on the wings.
'Fidget, I love you. I always have. Never forget what I told you. Always fight with love and honor and…be yourself.'
Fidget clenched his medallion with his right hand as he struggled emotionally. Rosetta watched as he began making angry noises and feared the worse for her sake.
"FOR KAÏRA'S SAKE, WHY ME?" he shouted as he brutally pulled his car by the sidewalk. He angrily parked it, got out of his seat, and walked all the way to the other side. He opened the door and removed the handcuffs from Rosetta, allowing her to nervously remove her seatbelt and step out of the car just when Mary Margaret, Regina, Rumple, and Killian managed to arrive on the scene.
"If you think we're going to let you hurt her the same way you nearly killed my son…" Regina began to threaten.
"JUST TAKE THE BRAT!" Fidget shouted, making the adults and Rosetta cringe in fright. "I'M SICK OF THIS TOWN AND EVERYONE IN IT! I'M LEAVING FOR A TIMEOUT!"
"Fitzgerald, please…" Killian began. But the Batrishan wouldn't listen.
"AND NO! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU, CODFISH! I SWEAR I WILL GET MY REVENGE ON YOU IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!" He sprouted his wings and flew off towards the forest.
"Should we follow him?" Mary Margaret asked.
"No," Killian said. "We should let him rethink of his actions and emotions. Maybe it will help him to finally follow the right path."
"Because you really thinking that letting him exile himself in the woods will help him consider redemption?" Rumple asked.
"Several villains got reformed here in Storybrooke," Rosetta joined Killian. "Why is Fidget the Bat any different?"
Time Skip
They had all gathered at Regina's house to recover. Anubis and Marion were hugging their daughter and tending the scars that Fidget gave her.
"This is the last time I'm letting you wander off into danger!" Anubis said in an angry, overprotective tone. "From now on, you're not going anywhere unless one of your jackal siblings or an adult escorts you!"
"Yes, daddy," Rosetta said quietly.
"I can't believe you let my daughter ditch class!" Marion angrily told Henry, who was now walking in crutches. "She's only eight!"
"I'm sorry," Henry said. "But when she said she had a vision of Fidget planning to hurt Hook…even if it meant hurting my mom in the process, I…I just didn't want to end up doing nothing!"
"You were only trying to help," Belle said, resting a hand on her step-grandson's shoulder.
"I'm still not sure why Fidget is desperate to get his revenge on Hook," David said. All eyes turned on Killian, who was sitting next to Emma on the couch, looking awfully sad.
"I'd rather not talk about it," Killian said. Emma held his hand in comfort.
"Would you prefer if I talk about it?" Rosetta offered. Killian gave her a silent nod and everyone stayed quiet while Rosetta talked.
"It was back in the year 1774, long before you and your brother Liam left for that expedition in Neverland. Your king had apparently signed a peace-making treaty with Aldorada's Queen Florencia and the two sovereigns sent their best military and diplomatic leaders for a trip to fetch a peace artifact located in Discordia's Isle. You and Liam represented your kingdom while Aldorada was represented by its royal heirs Pablo and Isabella and its best militants, General Hernan Denada Cortés and his adoptive son, the First Class Navy Sergeant Fitzgerald Denada Cortés, best known as Fidget the Bat.
"While most of your troop, including your brother Liam, didn't trust Fidget because of his non-human origin, you were the only one to actually befriend him. He gave you all his trust, he was excited to be paired with you, and the two of you shared everything with one another. You also befriended the princess Isabella, who was also Fidget's lover and fiancée.
"However, when you reached Discordia's Isle, Liam got a message from your king saying that he wanted you to dispose of Fidget. Secretly, your king wanted to destroy Aldorada, for he was jealous of the nation's glorious wealth and endless victories in battle. His sole intentions in the peace-making treaty was to find out who was responsible for Aldorada's endless success, and when he found out that it came from an undefeated soldier, the last member of an ancient, powerful non-human civilization, he saw it as an disadvantage and sought to dispose of Fitzgerald. But you were against it! You didn't want to lose your best friend, so you refused to take part in any of it.
"But what you didn't know is that Prince Pablo overheard your conversation, and he mostly focused on the part that mentioned your king wanting to dispose of his childhood friend and his sister's true love. So the next day, while Fidget and a few other soldiers went to patrol the Isle, he publicly revealed your troop's 'true mission' and declared you traitors. Hernan was furious and Isabella was shocked. Liam tried to put the blame on them for having a monster in their army. Hernan hated how Liam called him a monster, so he challenged him to a duel. You tried desperately to stop them, but you couldn't.
"Then, something strange happened. Even now you aren't sure of how it happened, but what you do know is that when Hernan managed to swash Liam's sword out of the latter's hand, the sword suddenly moved on its own and directly impaled both Hernan and Isabella, killing them.
"You were horrified. You tried to pull the blade out of their bodies, and just when you managed to do so, Fidget and the others came back and he only saw you holding a sword with a bloody blade over the dead bodies of his adoptive father and the love of his life. He mourned and screamed for them until anger and hatred suddenly filled him and targeted them at you. His new dark emotions caused him to sprout his Batrishan wings for the first time…and to desire your demise, forgetting how much you showed your loyalty.
"You tackled one another, and at some point, you rolled down a cliff and your elbow pressed on his wing, causing it to rip. He became incapable of flight on that day until just now.
"Then, for some reason, the Isle's volcano began to erupt although it was said to be extinct. Liam pulled you away from Fidget and the troops left back on the ships, leaving Fidget to die. I don't know how he escaped the Isle, but one thing's for sure, he howled that he would get his revenge on you."
Everyone stayed quiet in the room when Rosetta finished speaking. Killian, however, broke into tears.
"This sounds worse than the time when I pulled Milah's heart out," Rumple said.
"I feel awful for both of you," Mary Margaret told Killian.
"He didn't even try to listen to me!" Killian sobbed. "Only his eyes told him what to believe on that day. And he chose to believe that I betrayed him!" He continued sobbing.
Everyone in the room stayed quiet, wondering what would happen next, unaware that meanwhile, the spirit of Belle's unborn baby was chuckling to itself.
"A failed scheme, but a rather good one," it said. "The Evil One will definetly not regret the selection he made all those centuries ago. All those schemes that Fidget the Bat made, all that darkness he consumes inadvertently, will make him rise to the peak of his true destiny of evil. And when that comes, the Evil One will come to claim what is rightfully his, and soon everything will be consumed by darkness, starting with Storybrooke. How I'm going to revel watching the Batrishan Prince of Darkness put the universe in eternal chaos!"
The End
(imitating the voice they make in the OUAT trailers)
Next, on ONCE UPON A TIME, Storybrooke welcomes an unexpected visitor from an unexpected realm…
Marianne: Where's my husband? Where's my son…Marius?
Rosetta: You found the Fairy Queen Marianne!
…a Queen is desperate to save her family.
Fairy Queen Marianne: I must find a cure for my son's curse!
Rumplestiltskin: And at what price are you exactly willing to pay, dearie?
Fidget the Bat: I am currently uninterested in you situation.
Follow the adventure, when ONCE UPON A TIME meets STRANGE MAGIC, in THERE'S A STRANGE MAGIC IN STORYBROOKE, and follow the spin-off series retelling the history of Fidget the Bat in FIDGET, BATRISHAN PRINCE OF DARKNESS.